Living With The Half-Bloods

CHAPTER 18: We're Already Dead

Still Zach's POV

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"Are you okay now?" Matt said meeting Rania not knowing of what just happened to her, all they know is that she just let out anger and steam, no black smokes, no seizure's, no "I love You's'"

"Yeah, I'm fine now, so did you check Hannah's documents already?" Rania said walking to the cars door.

"Um-hm. We're going to California!" Chase yelled while doing an odd dance move.

"Chase, exactly where?" I said sitting next to Rania.

"Anaheim." Chase said smirking.

"Let's get going then?" Matt offered and Rania smiled.

This is going to be a long, long ride.

Matt and I interchanged on driving while Chase was too lazy and preferred to just sit and idle on his phone. So now, I was driving and Rania's head was on Matt's shoulders. I was trying hard not to look at them and just focus on the road, now that I told her what I felt, I'm conscious of what she thinks. Now I gotta make sure I'm the only one pursuing her.

"Can we stop?" Chase said putting down his phone for the first time.

"What now Chase?"

"I need to pee." He whined.

"And I'm also hungry." Matt said reminding me that we still haven't eaten anything yet.

"Okay, I'll just stop at the nearest shop, we need to refill anyways." I said driving as fast as we could.

I was driving so fast and they thought that it was because to stop at a shop as fast as possible, but really it was because it kind of hurts me seeing Rania with another guy, especially because that guy is my bestfriend.

We arrived in this shop that looked old but had about everything we needed, gas refill, bathroom, and foods. Chase went on with his peeing business, I took care of the gas and I saw my girl walking away with Matt to buy food.

"Hey, wassup?" Rania sat next to me on the hood.

"I thought you were gonna buy food?" I said smiling at her appearance.

"I just picked chips and dropped them off with Chase, Matt's searching for blood." She looked scared and grossed out as she said what Matt was doing.

"So you wanted to spend time with me?" I smirked.

She nudged me, " Hey, I'm not taking on sides, I just don't wanna stick around Matt while he's hunting deers and shit."

"I know." I bowed my head.

"Why so sad?" She said resting her head on my back.

"Who says, I'm sad?"

"Guys, we're done." Chase broke in with paper bags in his and Matt's arms.

"Back to driving it is." I said heading for the drivers seat.

"Actually, can you drive... Matt?" Rania said hiding her face in her hoodie but that sure sent hope to me.

Matt stopped for a second then he smiled.

We all sat in our places then I received a text.

Rania:

I guess I do wanna spend time with someone.

I smiled as I looked at her and she smiled back before turning her head to the window, probably because she's shy like how I am right now. After a few minutes, we were all on our phones except for Matt who was driving of course, Rania was leaning on me and her feet were up on the car seat.

"Why can't I call Megan or anyone in the haven?" Rania suddenly spoke as I cringed upon hearing the word Megan.

"We can't actually contact them using things people in this world made. Even telepathy wouldn't work, the only way to contact them is scrying, but we don't want them to know that we escaped right?" Chase said being the smart teenager that he was.

"But we could still one-way scry them right?" I finally thought of a great idea.

Matt nodded. Scrying was just like skyping but in a magical way, one-way scrying is when one can only see the call.

"Wait, now you've said it, can they one-way scry us too?" Chase asked alerted.

"Shit, yes. Especially because the twins are professional telepaths." I was now worried as well.

"I think I could materialize a block, so they wouldn't get to enter our mind space." Rania said.

"Are you sure, that would be hard, especially because you'd have to maintain it." I said

"I can, I know I can." She closed her eyes and I felt it, I felt a cover protecting us from even the best telepaths.

"Great, it's like we're in a condom." Chase laughed.

"Shut your dirty ass mouth Chase." Matt said annoyed.

"Okay, now to scry them." She said finding something she could use.

In order to scry, you are gonna need to make use of the elements. She grabbed a bottle of coke that has a small amount left of it that Chase just finished.

"Zach as soon as I pour the coke, control it so it won't fall okay?" She said and I nodded.

She twisted the bottle cap and turned the bottle around, letting out the small amount of coke, as soon as it came out, I controlled it, making it float. She focused, closed her eyes, and moved her hands making the coke sway with her motion. In a second, the liquid formed itself into replicas of what was happening in the dorms.

"The guards have searched everywhere, and they said a murder was committed last night! They can't even find a body nor a trace of the suspect." Megan barged in the room.

"Twins, can you try searching for them, or scry them! Just do everything you can." Arabella panicked.

Allie focused, trying to search us telepathically while Ellie was materializing our image through thin air, only the best telepaths could use air for scrying.

"We can't find them, Rania made a block... wait... Rania made a blockkkkkkk!!!" Allie shouted.

"Why are you happy?" Cress looked annoyed.

"Rania made a block, and we're the ones who taught her!!! We're so fcking proud of her!" Ellie added.

Megan face palmed

"They're gone, they're taken. i'm never gonna see Chase or any of them." Cress said crying.

Chase was getting anxious and he hates seeing his girlfriend cry so that was the last we saw because Rania closed the connection.

"There must be something very bad going on." Rania said wiping her hands with a tissue since it had droplets of coke on it.

"What do you mean." Matt said.

"Of course, they would panic if we were lost, that's normal, but they were acting as if we were already... dead." Rania said making sense and making me think about what could possibly be going on in the haven.